Tissue-specific whole transcriptome sequencing in castor, directed at understanding triacylglycerol lipid biosynthetic pathways

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Brown, Adrian P ^a   Kroon, Johan T M ^a   Swarbreck, David ^b   Febrer, Melanie ^b   Larson, Tony R ^c   Graham, Ian A ^c   Caccamo, Mario ^b   Slabas, Antoni R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EARLHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; GLYOXYLIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATIDATE PHOSPHATASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; RICINOLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; COTYLEDON; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOSPERM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMINATION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOGENESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RNA SEQUENCE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

RICINUS COMMUNIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CASTOR BEAN; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RICINOLEIC ACIDS; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84856514988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030100     Document Type: Article

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